Driving a $450 Buick home from a farm auction 

What youve done here is taken a 350, waited 40 years and created a 3800 v6 even down to replicating the sound

My Grandparents had an 83 LeSabre so this took me back. The washer fluid reminded me of my Grandpa. Ethylene glycol coolant was not expensive and not readily available in the 1930-40s, so alcohol based coolants (probably similar to washer fluid) were common. It lowered the boiling point and didn't cool as well especially in the non pressurized radiators, so he would use straight water, draining it out at night in the winter, then filling it again the next morning. After WWII ethylene glycol became more available, but he said it was $7/gal (something like $100 today), so he saved for a few months finally getting enough for the car then didn't have to drain the rad each night.

My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard

if it's all going out the tail pipe why are you bothering with antifreeze? Just throw distilled water in there.

Corey is a hero! Love these B-Body GM cars of the first wave of downsizing, even more than the facelift in 1980. These were so common at the time, but so few around these days. Very solid, reliable, smooth-riding cars. They serve(d) their purpose perfectly.

That car needs head gaskets right away I wouldn't drive it too much more

No wonder it got parked. The last owner had Scotty Kilmer work on it.

I believe that is a Buick engine. It should survive all this abuse. Head service. Radiator service. Daily driver!

The windsheild washer fluid is just boiling the alcohol out of it

Back when a passenger side door mirror was an optional feature.

First - I like your car. I remember when these were new and there were lots of them around. The LeSabre Limited is the nicer model with the nicer velour interior. It's also nice looking in red. A Buick 350 is a good engine - in 79 that was about the end of them being produced. They started using smaller engines in 1980 and later. The body still looks really decent on it. I know you just bought it for $450, and I don't know what your plans are - there is obviously a pretty major problem with all the smoke out the tail pipe. But guys - when you bought coolant and added the Bars leak - you fill up the RADIATOR first, not the overflow bottle! You're driving with nothing but air in the cylinder heads. You're making the problem worse. And if the HOT light came on, the engine was up at 255 F at least! You need to let it cool off for a good 2 hours at least! You added washer fluid and it was boiling - that's not good guys. You can crack the block or the cylinder heads, if that hasn't already happened before you bought it. And you kept driving. I know it's a cheap car, but if you want to save it, don't make the problems you already have worse! Good luck.

Body on that isn't bad for a 79, you did well for $450! I imagine you're still falling over parts for those where you live. That said I've not seen a head gasket fail as bad as that and I remember Rover!

Damn! You're like Uncle Buck!! All ya need is a good loud back fire 🤣

You guys are the best

what you've done is you've bought a $450 kettle

I’m here cause of a plug from nugget garage!

I had a 83 lesabre .this brings back memories. Mine had a olds motor

I wouldn't drive it far on that blown head gasket, it will destroy it. I had a similar situation on my Buick 350 Regal. I ended up replacing both head gaskets with the blue Fel Pro ones. I chased all the head bolt holes with a tap and brake cleaner then after cleaning deck surfaces and installing gaskets tightened in 3 steps in sequence. Put it back together and ran great. Don't forget to use a little film of oil on the head bolt threads as well as where the bolts contact the cylinder head for maximum torque wrench acccuracy. The bolt holes in the Buick 350 block are blind and don't pass through the water jacket like a Chevy 350.

My father's first car was a 1978 Buick LeSabre Custom Coupe, he got it from his dad in 1988. He loved that thing. I always like seeing GM cars from this era.

Can you hear me yelling at the screen to turn the f*cking oil jug over so it will pour smoother?

Recognize that Recycled coolant from Harrys

Drove a saturn around like that by taking the thermostat out and keeping the lift tab on the radiator cap popped up with a zip tie.

you shouldve just left the rad cap loose so it wouldnt have pressure

That's interesting that it has a real Buick engine. I would keep the original engine in it just for that fact. I think that many of these had Olds or some other corporate engine by '79.

Still running great at 450° f and steaming like a coal locomotive. GM at it's best

uncle bucks car ,, the smoke and power steer belt slipping

Thank you, this was a good laugh

Reminds me of cars I used to drive when i was Poor and young. Love it.

it was like watching ... Moe,Larry , Curly , first with a bad head gasket it's going to over heat no matter what , except this one trick ..keep the radiator cap loose don't tighten it , that way the coolant just flow's thru the system until you get it too where you needed it to be . i'm from the L.V as well and should had just carried jugs of plain ole water , now? that you boiled it up , you could had warped the head , and that's going to cost you more than what you paid for the car..unless you do it your self , but that car is a nice cruiser , my buddy had the 2 door like this one , only thing was when his mechanic replaced the fuel filter at the carb, 2 days later it went up in flames :) D-duncan might repair it ;)

I've heard of rolling coal but never rolling antifreeze 🤣

saw your lesabre, looks nice, stay way from bars leak, it will jam everything up,if radidiator is leaking, use black pepper (band aid quick fix) until you can get a new radiator. good luck

I never cared for Buick engines. They just seemed to always have problems back in the day. I know the 3800 is technically a Buick engine, but when those 3.8's first came out as the 231's.. They had lots of problems. That Buick would've been better off with a Chevy or Oldsmobile 350.

Nugget Garage sent me.

Y'all gotta try and build up that buick 350, absolute torque monsters

That era of GM offerings, they had "Corporate" offerings. So the motor could be a Pontiac 301 (turd), Chev 305, Chev or Buick 350, Olds 403...

When you you need to do something with the cooling system later just use water for now. Much cheaper than actual antifreeze

Despite the blown head gasket if you bleed the coolant system it would've helped with the overheating get the air bubbles out would help a little bit with the overheating and it looked like it didn't have enough antifreeze anyways so you had a ton of air in the system which was going to overheated immediately.

Just needs 2 pepper shakers in the antifreeze.

So many guys love these old buicks in PA they're not that uncommon to be honest, beautiful bricks of cars i had a 91 merc e300 myself and I LOVED it because it was just like driving a cloud on wheels, but on a very heavy body, you can't get the kind of experience driving modern cars as you can these old ones its wild Oh also the in general reliability question, daily driving a vehicle like this is like putting the max difficulty on in life LOL

Some Barra update would be great.. jus sayin

what weirdo swap is this thing getting?

I pull one of the vacuum ports off the carb and hook the windsheild washer bottle to it, hold it wide open, then spray the washer fluid in it to clean up the plugs and cylinders

Nice score on a rwd Buick. STP oil filter easily adds 10 to 20 horsepower.

Better and more thought out than Roadkill

I had a Bonneville did the same thing same engine and I replaced the head gaskets and that thing per like a kitten after I did that cool car.

My first car was a '77 Buick Electra (basically a LeSabre but with more gadgets to break) with a Buick 350 that I blew up while driving down the highway after doing a burnout to "impress" a girl and forgetting to shift out of low gear. The engine gave up about 70 miles later...while I was driving my Grandma home. Fortunately, my Dad's adolescent antics had steeled her nerves to such things, and she calmly rode out my coasting across three express lanes and round and off ramp to wait for a tow. I rebuilt the engine for my high school auto shop class that year. I paid $500 for it in 1987.

More of these videos please 😁

Put the heat on max and it will help cool down the engine and maybe slow down the overheating issue. Thank you for the video sir.

I had a Buick 350 in a 1970 Chevelle once the original 6 cylinder blew up. With 3.73 rear gears and all that torque it was quick off the line. Drove it all over Oahu when I was young and poor. Body rusted to pieces but the 350 kept going.

A fun video to start another day in Australia. Great barra videos as well

These Buicks will run forever and drive like your on a cloud!!

put half doz eggs in the rad

Absolutely hilarious!

Needs "my Hooptie" playing on repeat

Sounds Strong ! Lol

The only problems Buick engines of the 70s and 80s had were due to lack of maintenance. Skipping oil changes ia a death sentence for a Buick. Steel gears in the aluminum timing cover housing needs good oil. Dont foget, the 231 grand national engine is just a 350 Buick minus 2 cylinders and a shorter stroke. All the same turbo principles apply. The blocks can hold 1000hp. Bottom ends... 400hp with earlier stud/nut rods. 500hp/6000rpm with a good balance job with the later capscrew rods this should have.

I have a baby blue 78 LeSabre I love that car. I laughed so hard when you steaming someone out behind you. Great video.

As a previous owner of a square body Suburban I can definitely relate to what a monumental piece of shit that car is. My Suburban blew three engines in 132K miles. GMs from the 70s-80s had absolutely shit engines. Terrible castings that were cheap and thin and cracked constantly. Shouldn't have bought that turd. I'd junk it and cut your losses. If you want a classic, buy a Ford. Much better made at that time.

You put WASHER FLUID in the radiator?!!!! What the hell?! That stuff is Alcohol!!!! Very low boiling point.

Uncle buck special

Too many ad interruptions!

$500 cash we got deal??

17:40 Yeah that boiling point is a bit lower..

@17:49, the Alcohol in the Windshield Fluid is nicely boiling off. Should have dumped several more cans of Miracle Head Gasket Sealer in... Poor Bastards following you, getting to inhale Ethylene Glycol. Bad for the Kidneys and enough will cause Kidney Failure

BTW, not to get too picky here, but fuel injection blows, actually, not sucks, right? 😊

Can’t wait to see what engine this thing is getting

Leave cap loose. Drove my 97 s10 with a head gasket leaking outward. Drive 50 miles my ex gfs. Check coolant level and head back home 50 miles. It was awful in winter. Loose cap wouldnt let it build up heat.

20:03 "Spy Hunter Mode" activated...

If you find another Buick Lasabre of 1979. Let me know! I'm New Orleans. My Grandparents had one of these, 4 door , top of the line one.

I had a 1991 Grand Marquis that did the something and it was bad radiator only the top half was working and the oil cooler kine split and dumped coolant in the oil. I had the get a brand new rad oil cooler and oil change. The rad was 149.69 and oil cooler line 1649 and oil chabge was 25.00. it costed me about 275 parts and labor to fix. It would boil over just like ths as well and thermostat was stuck as well.

LOL!! 15-40!!!! But, I will tell you, the last real Buick, at least my Dad considered a real Buick, was the 79, year. He bought a new 79 La Sabre two door and stuck it in the garage for almost a decade. He drove it from 88 to the late 1990's, in his retirement. I remember that car when he'd pull it out, once a month for a ten minute run and the smooth ride on the rare occasions he drove it, in the summer time, for a weekend cruse.

Great video but you may want to check your edits since you were driving east on old 22 just about into Foglesville and then you were in “Hamburg” which you went past 20 mins before Foglesville.

Tiger paw AWP II, good white wall tire. If they still make them in the size you need.

I have a question about the PA title, maybe you can help me. I live in ny and baught a car from pa. Where does the notary need to stamp, is it on the back by the seller signature?

Have you considered sending the oil in for analysis?

i would have done bars leaks head gasket fix. surprisingly it works. i used it on my 96 camaro LT1. it's been several thousand miles, no more antifreeze in the oil, no more steam out the exhaust.

Good American G M Quality😁

I had one of those and it had a 403 in it. Great cars

All I kept thinking was, how much further??? LOL

Why aren’t you just adding water......wait why washer fluid???????

The Bat-smoke screen works well. Robin would be pointing and nudging Batman as if he were jealous. Otherwise, I like the car :)

if radiator leaks, don't use barsleak, it jams everything up, pour black pepper down the radiator, black pepper is totally natural, strong and doesn't clog up and you can just keep adding until it stopped leaking (bandaid sollution)

Smoking deal you got there lol. But definitely worth it. Rebuild or drop another motor in. Looks like a nice car other than the motor

Head gaskets....before you melt a piston....car trailers are cheap to rent at Uhaul. It takes considerable work to recommission a car from storage prior to driving it even a mile.... otherwise internal damages occur and show themselves later.

Buick 350s are great engines. They don't like to be overheated tho. At all.

Hey...the clock still works🤗

Kseal and liquid glass works with a flush and straight water. The antifreeze and the smartass ruined what could have been a fun video. Get new friends, or at least new camera/commentary

Check the water pump and thermostat, the radiator probably stock up with sand and dirt Good luck guys

The use windshield washer fluid as antifreeze is not recommended. For the radiator, Believe it or not, plain water would be best!!!!!

turbo 4200 redemption in this one?

I bet that was a nerve racking drive, instant fog cloud

Yelp it sure is ihe can fix it up nice Put a LSP a 6.0 liter and some daul ex get some spin techs 9000 mufflers and put a set of Q A 1 on it man and put some 28 in it huh ha ha ha

15w 40 My God... Never Treat A Buick Like That...

Should have flat bedded it home...I think that motor is shot! but it's still running! Tough old engines!

No choo choo sounds but the sound of an old percolator coffee pot is firmly represented!

might have blown head gasket, but pouring cold coolant into hot radiator and block, and then starting, is a good way to crack a head or block. when adding coolant to a hot engine, make sure it is running.

If you are going to do a head gasket job, do it right away, dont let it sit, the cylinders will be pitted in short order if you let it sit around for any length of time, especially if you poured straight water in it.

My mother had a light blue 79 Buick LeSabre turbo when I was little. That thing was optioned out had the mag wheels and everything.She traded it for a Mazda 626 in 1982 and the man who ended up with the Buick ended up blowing it up I think probably because the turbo never really spooled up with my mom driving it!

Should be adding water to the radiator rather than antifreeze. Water will do much less damage once it gets into the crankcase. The reason is, antifreeze has silicates in it.

2 bottles and no thermostat will do it if you can get it hot enough i've found that blue devil tends to weld the thermostat shut